2015-03-03T20:22:45ZΠρωτόγονη ευαισθησία και νεωτερική διάνοια στο Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά του Νίκου Καζαντζάκηhttp://hdl.handle.net/2328/26881
Title: Πρωτόγονη ευαισθησία και νεωτερική διάνοια στο Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά του Νίκου Καζαντζάκη
Authors: Vogiatzaki, Evi
Abstract: Please note: This article is in Greek. Primitive sensibility and modernist mentality in N. Kazantzakis’ Zorba the Greek:
This paper explores the recreation of mythic or primitive sensitivity and the dissociation
of rational thought and subjective feeling in the dialogical novel of Nikos Kazantzakis,
Alexis Zorbas. It contends that the novel dramatizes the contrast between mythic sensibility
and mental civilized self-reflection, revealing not only aspects of the modernist
understanding of subjectivity but also the kind of imaginative creation which the
narrative enacts reflecting the poetics of the twentieth-century primitivism. Mythic
sensibility manifests itself as a form of otherness which motivates the subject’s nostalgic
and tedious journey of return to archaic origins relating to the collective unconscious
of the race. Drawing upon Michael Bell’s study on Primitivism and the inferences of
anthropological studies in the beginning of the 20th century, it explores animism,
natural or cosmic piety and rituals as the most pervasive manifestations of primitive sensibility which are opposed to the civilized mentality of the novel. Alexis Zorbas’ life
and ideas substantiate the primitive urge of the novel which challenges the modern
skepticism of the character-author, thus evoking the ancient response to life which
occupies the kernel of the novel. Accordingly it concludes that Kazantzakis’ novel is
constructed as great allegory about the destiny of the civilized man of the twentieth
century. Reflecting on and longing for the unsearchable and grandiose moments in
the history of human civilization, the author is in quest of a spiritual and philosophical
recreation of the human consciousness whereby soul and body, spirit and matter would
reconcile recovering their lost unity.2013-06-01T00:00:00ZΒυζαντινός Κόσμος και Εννοιολογική Ιστορίαhttp://hdl.handle.net/2328/26880
Title: Βυζαντινός Κόσμος και Εννοιολογική Ιστορία
Authors: Arabatzis, Giorgos
Abstract: Please note: This article is in Greek. The Byzantine World and Conceptual History: The article examines the idea of the
Byzantine world through the methodologies of conceptual history and socio-history. A
criticism of the positivist stand and its scientific segmentation offers the starting point
and the analytical tools provided by the postmodern literature are briefly overviewed.
The concept of the Byzantine Ego appears to be central in the related research because it
permits to empathize with this Ego’s life-world. The notions of “power”, “meta-narration”,
“normativity”, “post-structuralism”, “modernism” and others are central for this study
if we wish to escape the narrowing positivist imperative and approach the Byzantine
world with a fresh look. The cultural logic of the Byzantine world is seen through a
processual approach that combines the ideas of critique, structure and, to some degree,
postcolonialism with the purpose to understand alternatively the cultural entities that
populated the Byzantine sphere.2013-06-01T00:00:00ZAuto/biographical writing and Greek-Australian historiographyhttp://hdl.handle.net/2328/26872
Title: Auto/biographical writing and Greek-Australian historiography
Authors: Nicolacopoulos, Toula; Vassilacopoulos, George
Abstract: This paper outlines a methodology for 'auto/biographical' life-history writing and
argues for its merits based on a particular case study. In the present context 'auto/
biographical life writing' refers to life writing that is produced collaboratively by the
participants, the researchers and research subjects, who are respectively positioned as
writers/editors and narrators. We will propose an account of the dialogical structure
that informs this inter-subjective interaction as developed in our collaboration with
one Greek-Australian political activist. In our collaboration with George Gotsis on
his auto/biography we have been taking what we call an ontological approach, in the
sense of addressing the conditions of being in a collaborative researcher–researched
relationship. We present the main features of this approach and discuss its merits and
connection with our Greek-Australian historiography more broadly.2013-06-01T00:00:00ZBlending Greek with Aboriginal Australian cultural elements in artistic expressionhttp://hdl.handle.net/2328/26871
Title: Blending Greek with Aboriginal Australian cultural elements in artistic expression
Authors: Kanarakis, George
Abstract: This paper pursues another transnational course extending the paper I presented at the
Eighth International Conference on Greek Research, where the influence of cultural
aspects of Aboriginal Australians upon a variety of first generation Greek Australians’
artistic expression was examined.
Exploring both direct and indirect influence of elements of Greek and Aboriginal
Australian cultures evident in artistic works (including theatre arts, painting, photography,
music and dance), my current research focuses on how this blending has
transcended through the filter of second generation Australians of Greek and Koori
parentage, as well as of Aborigines, Anglo-Australians and members of other immigrant
groups, and how this has been transformed and exhibited by them, thus being
“recreated” artistically.2013-06-01T00:00:00Z